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Babbage's steampunk computer takes step toward reality

...s Science Museum has begun work to underpin the creation of Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, a steam-powered prototype computer first imagined 170 years... Read more

22 September, 2011 by David Meyer

When was the first app? Try 19th century France

...Later on in the 19th century, English inventor and computing pioneer Charles Babbage would borrow the idea of using punched cards to program his Analytical... Read more

3 January, 2012 by silicon.com staff
Lovelace & <endeca_term>Babbage</endeca_term> 1.0.2

Lovelace & Babbage 1.0.2

...wickedly witty" Wired.com's Geek DadScience heroes Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage fight crime, clients, street-musicians and poetry in a gadget-filled steampunk... Read more

13 October, 2011
Alan Turing: 10 ideas beyond Enigma

Alan Turing: 10 ideas beyond Enigma

...such as that of John Atanasoff ("the first electronic digital computer"), Charles Babbage (the Analytical Engine from 1837), Konrad Zuse, or the Turing Bombe, Colossus... Read more

3 March, 2012 by S Barry Cooper

The monarchy and technology through the ages

The British royal family has long taken an interest in high technology, so we review a hitherto hidden part of our country's history Read more

29 April, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins

Book review: Where Good Ideas Come From

...many of his examples from the history of science: Darwin's notebooks, Babbage's efforts to build a computer, the exploration of space. Today's... Read more

7 April, 2011

Do we need a computer museum in Cambridge?

...has helped produce many of our most significant computer scientists -- including Charles Babbage and Alan Turing -- and Acorn and Sinclair made it the heart of... Read more

7 March, 2011
London's Science Museum links tech history

London's Science Museum links tech history

...Babbage Analytical Engine MillThe Babbage Analytical Engine Mill was built by Henry Babbage... Read more

4 March, 2011 by Jon Yeomans

The Weekly Round-Up: Smashed laptops, dreamy datacentres and Twitter fever

...for some new kit. Even if your kit is so old that Babbage would have looked at it and laughed. Excuse me again. Thunk. Pop... Read more

15 April, 2011 by The Round-Up

Photos: Datacentre evolution, BT fibre, Nasa tech and iPad vs Galaxy Tab

...items being sold was lot 57, shown above, a paper by Charles Babbage. Babbage was the first person to put forward the idea of a... Read more

30 November, 2010 by silicon.com staff

Photos: Apple I, Enigma machine and Turing papers to be auctioned at Christie's

Lot 57 is an offprint of a paper by Charles Babbage, the English mathematician, philosopher and engineer credited with first discussing the concept... Read more

11 November, 2010 by Tim Ferguson
<endeca_term>Babbage</endeca_term>'s Difference Engine No 2 brought to life

Babbage's Difference Engine No 2 brought to life

...feet tall. To remove room for human error in basic mathematical computations, Babbage designed the Difference Engine to calculate tables of polynomial functions to 31... Read more

12 May, 2008 by Kara Tsuboi

US Report: BMC bags Boole & Babbage

BMC Software (Nasdaq: BMCS) agreed Monday to buy Boole & Babbage (Nasdaq: BOOL) in a stock swap valued at $900 million (£533 millionn... Read more

2 November, 1998 by Eric Fleming

Name your top tech heroes

Following this week's news that Charles Babbage, Alan Turing and Tim Berners-Lee have all been voted onto a... Read more

23 August, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

MP seeks solar-powered laptop for developing world

...than £50, intended for use in the developing world. The so-called Babbage Prize could become a regular event, picking a new technology issue every... Read more

2 October, 2002 by Peter Judge

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